Quilt Show is Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2006

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1 Quilt Show is Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2006 PO Box 261, Los Alamos, NM March 2006 OFFICERS President Nicole Dunn Vice Presidents Lisa Spurlin and Trish Quin Secretary Judy Verzino Treasurer Joan Williams CHAIRS Historian Jacqueline Krohn Librarian Mardel Schmiedicke Community Service Lynn Pruvost & Debbie Claytor Publicity Claire Swinhoe Donation Quilt Jean Havrilla Quilt Show Jean Havrilla Membership members Laura Erickson rmllerickson@msn.com Block of e Mon Myrna Landt alpine.sfnm@att.net Webmaster Shirley Klosterbuer sklostb@earlink.net Newsletter Pandy Lolos Pandy2@covad.net Hello everyone! Hope you are all happy and healy. The board met on March 14, and ere is a lot going on at I would like to tell you about. First off, Laura Erickson has been hard at work and will have our current membership list available at our next meeting for ose who would like a copy for eir personal use. Also, e board decided to invite past members who have not yet joined and potential new members to join our guild for e rest of e year for only $15.00! So, if you haven t joined yet, or would like to, now is a great time. Pass e word! The next board meeting is set for May 8, so if you would like to join us or have questions, concerns or even constructive criticism for e board, please let us know. We also talked a lot about our next show which, alough not till e end of September will be here soon. The contract for e Knights of Columbus hall has been signed, so at is all set. We still need some volunteers, alough many of you have signed up already, ank you. We need a coordinator for Staffing for at weekend. This person will probably be passing out a sign up sheet and calling people a couple of weeks or a few days ahead of time to set up a time for when people can help make our quilt show a success. We also still need a chairperson to contact vendors. I don t know about you all, but I love e vendors as much as e quilts! Also, Jean Marie Havrilla is hard at work on our donation quilt, which is going to be spectacular. But we really need someone to coordinate when and where e quilt will be shown around town to sell tickets for our major fundraiser. This will in large part pay for our speakers next year. Please consider helping wi is. Later on I will also be asking for someone to help receive e quilts at e show, several people to help wi setting up e show, and someone to coordinate e door prizes, so ink about ose opportunities as well. I also wanted to let you know about a fabulous quilt/art show now showing at Fuller Lodge Art Center. It is really incredible. The challenge to e Studio Art Quilters of New Mexico was to make a quilt at was only 24 inches wide and no more an 36 inches long, and at represented any or one of e four elements: wind, fire, water and air. Taken individually ey are great, but as a show ey are incredible. Please take some time to go see it! The Art Center also now boasts a new wood floor at really sets of e quilts, at I have been told has been very long in e coming. The show will hang until e April 15. The Round robin challenge continues in our newsletter as well, are you keeping up? It only gets better and better. And don t forget e challenge issued by e Art Study quilt group as well. Details for bo are in your newsletter! Thanks for all you hard work and keep sewing! Nicole

2 MARCH GUILD MEETING March 28, :00 pm White Rock Baptist Church Irma Gail Hatcher will be speaking on Quilt Designs: What to Put Where. Ideas are presented to show how to come up wi designs which can be used to quilt a particular quilt.. Members of e audience are invited to bring quilt tops for quilting design considerations. MARCH WORKSHOP March Workshop wi Irma Gail Hatcher. 3-D Applique -- All Levels Participants learn basic finger press applique in addition to stuffed applique, yo-yos, gaered flower, folded rose, and ruching. A pattern is given to participants before class so at design can be marked on background fabric before class. APRIL GUILD MEETING April 25, 7 pm United Church on Canyon Road Fat quarter bingo plus a possible special showing of quilts by a cluster is e program. Each bingo card 'costs' 1 Fat Quarter (22" x 18") to play. You can play one or two cards only per game so round up some fat quarters to bring wi you for an evening of fun. COMMUNITY SERVICE from Lynn Pruvost WORK DAY: Saturday, April 22 will be e day to help make quilts for Community Service. There will be projects to begin or ones to complete. Please bring your sewing machine. There will be fabric, read, and batting available. We will open e United Church door at 9:00 a.m. and depart at 4:00 p.m.(you do not have to spend e entire day - any time you can spare will be greatly appreciated). Please sign up at e April meeting or contact Lynn Pruvost, or Debbie Claytor, or just show up and help! 1 tablespoon sugar 2 cups chicken bro 1/2 cup heavy cream - Thelma used half and half 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill weed OR 1 teaspoon dried dill weed salt and freshly ground pepper to taste Melt butter in a medium-size nonreactive saucepan. Add onion, celery, and garlic; saute gently over medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring often; do not brown. Stir in tomatoes and sugar. Simmer, covered, for 6 to 8 minutes, until tomatoes are soft. Transfer vegetable mixture to a food processor; process to a smoo puree. Pour puree back into saucepan; stir in chicken bro, cream dill weed, salt and pepper. Heat oroughly; serve hot. Yields 4 to 6 servings. Will e oer ladies who brought yummy soup, salads, bread, and desserts please send in eir recipes to share? DIY ROUND ROBIN QUILT CHALLENGE To your center plus border, add a border composed of squares and rectangles. The size is up to you but ink about proportion and how large you want your finished piece to be as ere are two more borders to add besides is one. Have fun. 1. We had wonderful food to share at e RSVP Senior Quilters Valentine lunch. Ihave requested at e ladies share eir recipes wi us. Below is Thelma Hahn's great tomato soup! Thank you, Thelma. Deluxe Cream of Tomato Soup 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 small onion, finely chopped 2 celery stalks, finely chopped Thelma added one large clove of elephant garlic. 4 large tomatoes, peeled, cored, seeded and chopped - Thelma used a large can of diced tomatoes instead of fresh ones

3 QUILT SHOW 2006 from Jean Havrilla st 2006 QUILT SHOW is September 30 October 1 at e Knights of Columbus Hall. The name of e show is Quilts of Enchantment. Request for chairperson for e following committees: Vendors Staffing Receiving Setup Facilities Door Prizes Signs/Publicity - Claire Swinhoe Refreshments - Myrna Landt Community Services Lynn Provost Security The Old Batts Cluster Carolyn Bush Ballots, Prizes and Labelling Barbara Forslund & Kay Eccleston Please mark your calendars and volunteer for e chair positions which are open as listed above. I have a list of members who are willing to help by just asking wi a friendly phone call. Thank you to ose who have already volunteered. See you at e meeting. Jean Regional Doings March 28 Design wi Heart Fiber Conference Exhibition "Protection in e Year 2050", showcasing creative garments and accessories for protection against potential "identity eft", "global warming", "alien invasion", "furer unrelenting debt", and oer challenges in e future. This exhibit will be open to e public all day Tuesday, March 28, from 9am to 7pm, at e Design wi Heart conference site, on e mezzanine at The Lodge at Santa Fe (formerly Radisson Hotel) on No. St. Francis Drive. Vendors marketplace also on Tuesday from 4-8 pm at e Lodge at Santa Fe. Textile Arts Alliance will host Dr. Elizabe Barber, faculty at Occidental College in So. California, and auor of 20,000 Years of Women's Work and of Mummies of Urumchi, Friday, April 7, at 12 noon at e Wheelwright Museum library, on Museum Hill, Calle Lejo. Dr. Barber will present an hour slide lecture about her most recent field work, and be available for questions. The lecture is free to current Textile Arts Alliance members, and to e public for an admission of $5. May 4-7 Denver National Quilt Festival at e merchandise mart Denver, Colorado A juried and judged quilt show, fascinating workshops and lectures, plus e large Merchants Mall. More information at Now - May 13, 2006 Harwood Museum of Art Taos, NM Stitched Marks, an exhibition featuring e work of Mical Aloni, Terrie Mangat and Carol Shinn working wi a variety of fiber arts techniques. Admission $7. National Alzheimer Art Quilt Initiative Quilter Ami Simms is organizing e Alzheimer Art Quilt Initiative.. The Alzheimer Art Quilt Initiative is a program to raise awareness and fund research for Alzheimer's disease. It has two parts: a traveling art quilt exhibit interpreting Alzheimer's in fiber art at will tour e US for ree years, and an on-going sale of small art quilts. All proceeds will go to Alzheimer's research. The deadline for submitting a quilt for e traveling exhibit is June 5. The prospectus is at Ami is also sponsoring "Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts." These are very small mini-quilts (maximum size: 9" x 12") named for e urgent need for research dollars and for e USPS priority mailers used to send e donation quilts to e buyers. You may want to make up ese small quilts to help e research effort. Ami says 'Many anks for helping me spread e word'.

4 APRIL BLOCK OF THE MONTH DEPRESSION BLOCK Cut sixteen 3-7/8" dark fabric squares. Cut sixteen 3-7/8" light fabric squares. Cut each square in half once on e diagonal... save half of ese for anoer block, or anoer project. MARCH BLOCK OF THE MONTH STARFLOWER Color 1 (dark) needs: two strips 3-7/8" x 7-3/4" Color 2 (medium) needs: two strips 3-7/8" x 7-3/4" Color 3 (light background) needs: one strip 3-1/2" x 14" AND two strips 3-7/8" x 7-3/4" Start by cutting e Color 3 3-1/2" x 14" strip into four 3-1/2" squares... Sew each dark half square triangle to a light half square triangle, right sides togeer, and using a scant 1/4" seam. Press seams to e darker side. Trim to measure 3-1/2" if needed. Make sixteen units like is of all random fabrics... Now lay out e squares wi Dark (D) and Light (L) arranged as shown... Piece e block by sewing four horizontal rows. Join e rows, and it's done! Then speed piece e half squares...by stacking e Color 3 and Color 1...Color 2 and Color 3...and Color 2 and Color 1 3-7/8" x 7-3/4" strips, right sides togeer and all edges aligned. On e backs of e top strips, lightly mark off e 3-7/8" square lines, and en mark e diagonals in e direction shown at left...now sew a scant 1/4" above e marked diagonals in one continuous seam from e upper left corners to e upper right corners...pivoting at e 3-7/8" square lines...en turn e fabrics, and sew back a scant 1/4" on e oer side of e marked diagonals...cut apart on e square lines, and on e marked diagonals...is will give you four of each color combo of half squares...press seam allowances towards e darker fabrics... Now you can piece e block, by first making rows, and en sewing e rows togeer to make e block! Alternate pressing directions by row. Makes a 12" (12 ½ unfinished) block. Makes a 12" (12 ½" unfinished) block.

5 There is still space left in Irma Gail s workshop. You can find out more abut Irma Gail at This mon her quilts won two awards at e Dallas Quilt Show. Irma Gail is reducing her teaching and traveling schedule so is may be your last chance to take a class from her locally. Registration Form for Irma Gail Hatcher Workshop March 29, am - 4 pm Name Phone Address Workshop cost is $50. Make checks payable to LAP. Submit form at meeting or mail to: LAP PO Box 261 Los Alamos, NM Pandy s Quilt Store 13 Sherwood, White Rock 2-day Fat Quarter Sale Fri. March 31 & Sat. April 1 25 Fat Quarter for $25 No, it s not an April Fool s Joke. We have brought in some fabric especially for is sale including some Aunt Grace s, black & whites, textured solids, and brights. Buy less an 25 fat quarters and ey are $2 each. Buy more an 25 fat quarters and ey are $1 each. Open 10-5 Friday and Saturday. Closed Sundays April - August.

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